The emerging left/right unity in opposition to the surveillance state.

The work of writers like John Whitehead and William Norman Grigg detailing the growth of the American police state.

How many on the Left are starting to realize the Left has failed to develop an effective opposition force against the Bush-Obama wars and surveillance regimes and how libertarians have picked up the torch.

Eric Holder’s belated recognition that America’s prison-industrial complex has gotten out of hand.

The declining influence of the neoconservatives in the GOP and their eclipse by realists like Rand Paul.

How the U.S. empire is losing its grip on Egypt and why Israel partisans are pushing for still more military intervention in the Middle East